Kideo

The Gay Uncle is not a huge fan of receiving videos of people’s children. Not because kids aren’t darling and hilarious. They are. But, most of the time, when folks send clips to the G.U., they’re of things that are inane (infants sleeping); humiliating (parents singing to their offspring); boring (birthday parties where no one throws cake);or gross (birth). This point was driven home today, when Gunc was forwarded a QuickTime file from an old family friend. He’d already seen these people’s most recent on-line Christmas card, in which the family members’ heads were hauntingly transposed onto a herd of animated reindeer who danced (rather poorly) to Frosty the Snowman. So, since the link was described by the sender as “cute” he figured it might simply be another holiday click-and-add. He imagined hopping clip-art Easter bunnies, a bloodless re-enactment of the crucifixion, or maybe–since Passover was coming–some sort of Busby-Berkeley inspired ten plagues choreography. Instead, the film was of the couple’s young son receiving an Electro Encephalo Graph (E.E.G.) No matter how, or how many times, G.U. views this footage, he cannot convince himself that there is anything charming or adorable about a three year old kid with eighteen needles taped into his skull lying prone and anesthetized on a sterile-paper-covered table and having his brain waves scanned. (E.E.K.!!) Why, he wants to know, must this now be downloaded into his cerebral hard drive. He also wants to know: What are the contents of the strangest Kideo clip you’ve received? Let him know below in the Comments section.